A merman in sailor garb, a pair of fish-headed fashion plates, and a natty fellow in the garden with a ram's-head chapeau decorate the zodiacal greeting cards in this assortment, for Aquarius, ...(Read More)

Perhaps the most widely known and loved deity throughout the Buddhist world, Chenrezig—also known as Avalokiteshvara, Kuan Yin, or Kannon—is the Buddha of Compassion and is Tibet's patron deity. ...(Read More)

Dzogchen, or the path of Total Perfection, is the essence of Tibetan Buddhism; it is not a religion, tradition, or philosophy. As Chögyal Namkhai Norbu says, "Dzogchen is the path of self-liberation ...(Read More)

Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Bacon, Kepler, and other pioneers of science owed much of their achievements to the alchemical beliefs of the Hermetic philosophers, posit Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince. ...(Read More)

This history of the Freemasons explores a fraternity that has been alternately praised for its contributions to society and vilified for its secrecy. Michael Johnstone discusses the possible roots of ...(Read More)

Four centuries ago, French writer François de La Rochefoucauld said, "It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it." And yet, there are those who have seen ...(Read More)

Falling into a fascinating, often surreal world at the extremes of American yoga, Benjamin Lorr walked into his first yoga studio on a whim, overweight and curious, and quickly found Bikram Yoga—"hot ...(Read More)

In this third title of his series that began with How to Sit, Thich Nhat Hanh considers the fundamental human need for friendship, affection, intimacy, and family. In succinct, straightforward ...(Read More)

Collecting the best writing of the first six years of ascent magazine, this omnibus for spiritual yoga practitioners features interviews with such leading thinkers and writers about yoga as ...(Read More)

Many gods have been saying that the cowherd boy Krishna is really the deity Vishnu, prompting the god Brahma to put him to the test, in this tale for readers 4 to 8. Brahma hides the cowherd's ...(Read More)